In 1971, in the lobby of the Cairo Sheraton, Palestinian terrorists shot Wasfi al-Tal, the prime minister of Jordan at point-blank range. As he fell to the floor dying, one of his killers began drinking the blood gushing from his wounds. Doesn't that strike you as a little, um, overwrought? Three decades later, when bombs went off in Bali killing hundreds of tourists plus local waiters and barmen, Bruce Haigh, a former Aussie diplomat in Indonesia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, had no doubt where to put the blame. As he told Australia's Nine Network: "The root cause of this issue has been America's backing of Israel on Palestine." ~ MARK STEYN, EMPOWERING IRANIAN HEGENOMY, Chicago Sun-times column, July 2006.

313 posted on 07/27/2006 8:55:47 AM PDT by PsyOp
(In this one enemy we strike at the center of gravity… - Clauswitz, On War, 1832.)